AZERBAIJAN: ENERGY-RICH, HEALTHCARE-POOR

Avqust 1, 2008 · Kateqoriya: Azərbaycan · Şərh 

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Azerbaijan may have the mega-energy revenues needed to build roads and to refashion its military, but when it comes to regional healthcare, the country’s attention appears to be focused elsewhere.

Like many rural Azerbaijanis, Intigam Mammadov, a resident of Imamgulubayli village in southern Azerbaijan’s Agdam district, feels shortchanged by the situation. The lack of a well-quipped local hospital cost his father his life in 2006, Mammadov believes, adding that his father was a long-time sufferer from bronchial asthma. “The closest hospital is situated . . . four to five kilometers away from our village,” he recounted to EurasiaNet. “But this hospital has neither suitable conditions nor educated doctors. Since the quality of medical service is not satisfactory, there are very few people who go there,” he said.
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Negotiating a black hole

Iyun 16, 2008 · Kateqoriya: Avropa, Azərbaycan · Şərh 

The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan are meeting in St Petersburg to discuss the now two-decade-old conflict in the South Caucasus over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. After a bitter war during the breakup of the Soviet Union, Armenian forces occupied the mountainous region within Azerbaijan with the intention of protecting ethnic Armenians in the area.

The simmering stalemate pits Armenian Christians against Azerbaijani Muslims, with several lives lost on either side every year. But why should an obscure ethno-religious conflict concern us, and why is today’s meeting more significant than the numerous failed negotiation attempts of the past 20 years?
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